Leadership Ministry
Flexing Muscles of Vitality and Wholeness
Using a cohort-based model, TMF gathered congregations by affinity to learn and experience the five adaptive muscles through C3.
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Leadership Ministry
Investing in the Unknown
The metaverse is a digital universe made up of augmented reality, virtual reality, and blockchain. In this digital reality, we expect to find gamers and maybe even a new economy, but what about the church? Will the church be there too?
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Leadership Ministry
An Intersection of Callings
When Rev. Eddie Rivera was a 15-year-old growing up in Mexico, he was a fourth-generation Methodist. Joining the family business of ministry was not a difficult decision, but it did not feel like a calling. It felt like following his dad’s legacy.
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Leadership Ministry
Places to Play: A Pitch
Sometimes innovative leaders just need a bit of affirmation that they are going in the right direction. For Pastor David Briggs, that is just what Launch 1.0 did.
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Leadership Ministry
The Multiplier Effect
The learnings Laurinda’s has gained through TMF’s Leadership Ministry have been transformative and have eased the weight of living out her call. In fact, these learnings have been so valuable to her that she has made a point of sharing them.
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Leadership Ministry
From the Kitchen to the Pulpit: A Pitch
Hispanic women feel tied to traditional expectations of femininity – cooking, rearing children, cleaning. No matter how they feel God is calling them, the expectation that they will serve their families in the home can prevail over God’s call.
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Leadership Ministry
Empowering Leaders in New Ways: A Pitch
“I serve a ministry that is innovative. It is a ministry of and with the poor...This community is more than statistics,” Amy said. “It is filled with talented, resourceful people, and part of my work at Christ’s Foundry is simply to empower them.”
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Leadership Ministry
On Resilience
Along with purpose and courage, resilience is one of the leverage issues on which congregations will live or die in the future. What is needed to enlarge the capacity of pastors, congregations, and the denomination to become more resilient?
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Leadership Ministry
Apportionment Success in the El Paso District
In 2017, the El Paso District paid 90.9% of their apportionments! The combination of participation in the learning community and participation in the covenant agreement had a monumental influence by increasing apportionment support by 20% in a year.
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